Yoga Is a Spiritual Practice: That's Why It Had Me From 'Git

There is a desperate need in the United States of America for sacred spaces for the holding and spread of true yoga, in energy, truth, and tradition.

I would like 2 say that I have been hideously deprived of both teaching places and spiritual community, across the country, since people began seeing me as a "Teacher of Teachers," "Leader of Leaders," or God knows what else, who might be destined to/may choose to be in leadership in a place of her "own" one day. This space would not belong to me. It would belong to the universe and its powerfully efficient evolution thru me & the devotion of my life to this mission's being fulfilled.

I have to say that American yoga has deeply concerned me, though I am somewhat of a baby, still, in terms of who is out there as a living representative of the depth that yoga can be lived anywhere in our country.

Permanence and truth in any area resides in the soul.

I am concerned that yoga is seen as a physical routine, much like going to the gym. I find it interesting that people would even question any yogic practice as being anything less than equivalent 2 going to church, synagogue, mosque, or temple. I am concerned that I have been rejected to teach in yoga shalas that are being run by householders trying to make a living off of something funded by a spouse who works in the corporate world and thinks that yoga is like going to the gym and is never told otherwise. And they go to church on Sunday while I am in practice around the same time.

I am interested to know that in 9.9 times out of 10, the owner, or owners, are White. Western. As in cowboy, old-school White people.

Who question an Eastern girl with highly recognized spiritual gifts and a propensity towards all things truth-bringing, especially in an Eastern way, to teach an ancient Eastern spiritual practice that was probably around before Buddhism & Hinduism made an official split.

I am astounded that, as a yogi who fancies fashion, my students, while I was full-time yoga teaching in all-yoga studios, were able to purchase the material items needed for the practice well before I could, when I needed them. And the excuse for not studying more in-depth was that the practitioner was working on said practitioner's 3rd car.

Yoga has been, is, and forever will be a spiritual discipline. My statement today is that any person, organization, school, or studio Westernizing, fitness-izing, Medical Community-izing, or otherwise destroying the pure, unfettered, untarnished, Spiritual Law that has, is, and forever will pour through and manifest as beauty that cannot be replicated, enlightenment, purity, power, and untouchable virtue in and radiate from any aspirant with a devout heart and a willingness to achieve Samadhi 4 the benefit of all humanity & the balance of Mother Earth & the Universe that we spin in get out the way, get out the way, get out the way--MOVE! And be instantly smote out. Without a lick of hesitation.

You don't get the glorious/glorified benefits of yoga from anything but completely having fallen in love with God/Source.

And I consider it a testament to the insanity of Americans, in general, myself not included, that it should ever come up, amongst my colleagues, that I am greedy because I have an elite academic background & my beginnings, as an adult, in Business, because I have the sanity to ask to be paid what I'm worth when they R used to disempowering their "subordinates" in any situation, &/or when I am wondering if I will be able to afford groceries for the rest of the week in this way of life, which came to me through Divine Guidance, not by my personal desire, only to have the very same yogis attempt to guilt/blame me for not registering for the workshop, not studying with them (and the other 50, in my estimation, inadequate teachers, no matter how veteran, who are not worth studying with because they want me more than I want them), or associating themselves with non-practicing retailers who like the OM symbol who join in their chorus of hating and pressure called: "what-other-yoga-crap-could-I-buy-4-them-not-the-perfect-n'-natural-path-I'm-already-on."

Only to have the same practitioners, mentioned above, who, after going to mass on Sunday, study with said owner/teacher--because, yes, that owner/teacher wanted them to come to his or HER class, not mine--decide to join in on the dissing chorus, agreeing I want too much, after they come running up to Reception so happy because they've finally! got that 3rd Earth-dissolving car cuz their neighbor has one.

I am conscious of who I am, and amongst everything, I am consummately American. Not stereotypically. I said consummately. I hope you'll join in my vision of believing in the beauty of the human spirit in our country, that is in repulsive health, to return to its natural power and, like a true yogi, assist me in smoting out ignorance where it exists, or gently ushering it on to its next evolutionary step, whichever is required not by personal vendetta but by God.

And for ALL you expecting-tips-before-you-give-something-to-be-grateful-4 and all you no-enlightenment-bein' personas tryin' to sell me more dead weight products & services, how 'bout you find me a good, solid place to teach. And how 'bout when I see you in class, without the cigarette hangin' out your mouth, I come back to your store and THINK about buying the thing I liked--not you. The one I liked. Happily. I'll definitely marinate on it.

You know me. Just tellin' ya what is. As always.